Musk Moves to Keep His Texas Chip Factory to Himself
The correction landed on X with the force of a door slamming. A user had posted that the most likely outcome for Terafab, Elon Musk’s planned AI chip complex in…
SpaceX Plans to Borrow $40 Billion to Buy Nvidia’s Chips
The figure would have been unthinkable for a rocket company a few years ago: $40 billion in fresh debt, most of it for a single order of computer chips. That…
Ofcom Opens an Inquiry Into Meta’s New Instagram Feature
When a platform ships a new feature, the question most people ask is whether it will catch on. The question Britain’s communications regulator is asking about Instagram’s newest addition is…
Facebook Puts Reels First in India
The next time a Facebook user in India opens the app, the first thing they see may be a vertical video shot by a stranger rather than a post from…
TSMC Edges Toward Musk’s Texas Chip Bet
For months, Elon Musk has argued that the world’s biggest contract chipmaker cannot make enough of what his companies need. Now Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. appears to be weighing whether…
SpaceX Moves to Pipe Gas Into Cape Canaveral
SpaceX’s newest infrastructure project is not a rocket or a launch tower. It is a 32-mile natural gas pipeline through Brevard County, Florida, that the company wants to build so…
The Pentagon’s Long Exit From Anthropic’s Claude
The confirmation came in a sentence delivered to the BBC on Sunday. “The Pentagon has ceased the use of Anthropic products,” a Defense Department official said, closing a six-month phase-out…
OpenAI Adds an Invisible Fingerprint to ChatGPT’s Words
There is nothing to see in the change OpenAI made to its chatbot on Sunday. No hidden character, no invisible space, no odd punctuation mark. The signal the company is…
Musk’s Fortune Tops $1 Trillion Again
For much of Monday, the math moved in Elon Musk’s favor. A bullish Morgan Stanley research note lifted SpaceX shares 7.63%, and the swing added roughly $30.6 billion to his…
Google Puts Its AI Chips in Orbit, Testing a Solar-Powered Data Center
A Planet Labs satellite rode into low Earth orbit on October 1 aboard a SpaceX rideshare, carrying an unusual payload: a set of Google’s custom-built AI chips. The tensor processing…
